Feels quite sluggish after upgrading from 4.4.5.
System Load tab of System Monitor takes almost 1s to display the graphs when switching from another tab, + some visual artefacts sometimes when switching to the other tabs.
Blurry text in the task manager.
Some colours messed up in the theme I'm using, like blue tooltips.
Haven't found a cool new feature yet to balance that, but I'm sure that will come.

I put priority of that repo to 991 in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ so will be upgraded automatically with a d-u. First time I do this so I hope I chose the right number.

blackhole

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 07:56

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you don't need the number or the preferences section. It will upgrade automatically.

devil

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 08:24

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Quote:

It will upgrade automatically.

this goes for minor upgrades, like the one yesterday. it does not neccessarily work for upgrades like from 4.5.x to 4.6.x
those should be done by: apt-get -t experimental-snapshots dist-upgrade
true is that preferences are obsolete.

greetz
devil

ShakaZ

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 12:13

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Good to know. Is there anything else providing the functionality of preferences or does apt just automatically use the same repositories a package was installed from?

finotti

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 12:27

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[quote="devil"]

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true is that preferences are obsolete.

How about pinning? Should it also be done in a different way?

Thanks,

Luis

belze

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 12:57

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gone good!

MoDaX

Post subject:Posted: 27.04.2011, 13:05

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ShakaZ wrote:

Good to know. Is there anything else providing the functionality of preferences or does apt just automatically use the same repositories a package was installed from?

qt-kde.debian.net experimental-snapshots repository has "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" set in the Release file hence its priority defaults to 100. This means that newer packages are installed/upgraded from it unless currently installed version has a higher priority (e.g. you have the version from unstable installed (prio 500)). Debian experimental defaults to prio 1.

That's the reason you need to use -t experimental-snapshots (equivalent of bumping repositority priority to 900 via pinning) to upgrade packages from unstable which experimental-snapshots provides newer versions for.